AREA POLICE NEWS

AMHERST — A 19-year-old woman crossing North Pleasant Street in a crosswalk after getting off a bus suffered bruises after being hit by a vehicle Thursday evening, police said.

Jenna Rose Bankey, of Newport, R.I., was walking with several other people in the area of 995 North Pleasant St. near Crestview Apartments at 5:23 p.m. when a Toyota Corolla driven by Jacqueline Anne Dibella, 21, of Needham, struck her, police said.

The force of the collision caused Bankey to land on the hood and then windshield of the vehicle, which shattered, before she was thrown onto the ground a few feet away from the crosswalk, police said.

Though Bankey complained of severe pain throughout her body, and was brought by Amherst Fire Department ambulance to Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, she was treated and released, less than five hours later, with only contusions and no broken bones or head injuries, police said.

Dibella was not speeding in the 35-mile-per-hour zone and told police she was not distracted by a cellphone or any electronic devices, according to police. She was issued a citation for failure to stop for pedestrians in a crosswalk, police said.

— SCOTT MERZBACH

Man treated after accident in Hadley

HADLEY — A man who lost control of his vehicle on Rocky Hill Road early Friday morning suffered minor injuries in the accident.

Police Chief Dennis Hukowicz said Christopher Moran, 29, of 114 King St., Northampton, was traveling westbound in the area of 46 Rocky Hill Road when he lost control of his vehicle and struck four guardrails, with the vehicle coming to rest on a lawn.

Moran, was transported by Amherst Fire Department ambulance to Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton, where he was treated and released, according to a hospital spokeswoman.

This marked the second day in a row an overnight accident with injury occurred on a Hadley street. Thursday at 1:14 a.m. on Mill Valley Road, a rollover accident led to the driver and a passenger being taken by ambulance to an area hospital with minor injuries.

No further information was available about the accident.

— SCOTT MERZBACH

Amherst

∎ Karol Makusiewicz, 23, of Holyoke was arrested Thursday at 1:13 a.m. on South Pleasant Street on charges of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol, failure to stop at a red light and speeding, police said.

Northampton

∎ James Dexter, 51, of 43 Center St., was arrested about 3:57 p.m. Thursday on Hawley Street on a pair of warrants issued by Chicopee District Court.

The first warrant was for defacing property and the second for municipal ordinance violations.

∎ Brian T. Weston, 34, of 43 Center St., Apt. 4, was arrested about 2:19 p.m. Thursday on West Street on two charges of possession of a Class A drug (heroin) (subsequent offense). According to police, officers were dispatched to Veterans Field for a report of a man identified as Weston dancing in the park with his pants down.

When officers arrived they found Weston with his pants around his ankles, still wearing boxer shorts and found plastic bags apparently containing heroin and other drug paraphernalia in his duffle bag.

UMass

∎ Richard Driscoll, 23, of Stoughton, was arrested Tuesday at 5:37 p.m. at Van Meter dormitory on two counts of possession with intent to distribute a class D substance, marijuana, police said.